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Commit 18ac5233 authored by Justin Stitt's avatar Justin Stitt Committed by Mike Snitzer
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dm log userspace: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

`lc` is already zero-allocated:
|       lc = kzalloc(sizeof(*lc), GFP_KERNEL);
... as such, any future NUL-padding is superfluous.

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Let's also go with the more idiomatic `dest, src, sizeof(dest)` pattern
for destination buffers that the compiler can calculate the size for.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90


Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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